Meet the restaurant owners behind the city's most anticipated new drinks festival

The owners behind two of Glasgow's most popular contemporary restaurants are teaming up to bring the first-ever tequila and mezcal festival to the city.Gone are the dreaded days of tequila slammers - instead, tequila and mezcal are to be celebrated and savoured like a Mexican whisky.

Before opening Five March, Joanna, 38, lived in Mexico for a couple of years where she learned about the spirits and developed a fondness for them. "Being in the on-trade in bars and restaurants in Glasgow, you do see it a lot. But it's not in the shops that much, it's only in speciality bottle shops.A post shared by Copita Mezcal and Tequila Festival "It's something we've talked about quite a lot is the similarities that it has to whisky in Scotland.

He added:"Learning this deep dive into mezcal that we've done for the last year or so is really impressive and it's made us all even more excited about bringing this festival to Glasgow and to Scotland."

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